Rocky Mountain Fisher House Foundation

The Rocky Mountain Fisher House Foundation's goal is to support the military and veteran families staying at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Fisher House located in Aurora, Colorado. The Foundation was created to support the house through fundraising and awareness efforts. Our mission is to make sure all the family's needs are provided for at the house even when funding from the VA is not there. The Foundation specifically provides laundry service to the house as well as food and transportation to the families staying at the home. We also provide new appliances as well as refurbishments and enhancements to the home to make sure it is always up-to-date. We strive to create a healing and supportive environment for our families who are dealing with a medical crisis. Overall, the Rocky Mountain Fisher House Foundation's goal is to go above and beyond what the VA can provide to make sure our Fisher House is clean and comfortable for our military and veteran families.

The Rocky Mountain Fisher House Foundation's strategies includes coordinating private and public support as well as creating awareness of our Fisher House. We seek to provide much more than the government can provide by making sure the house has clean linens as well as providing food, transportation and financial assistance to the military and veteran families staying at our Fisher House.

We have a diverse and very active Board of Directors who have taken on the challenge of public awareness and increased funding. We have partnered with various businesses and corporations that hold fundraisers for us. We are partnered with Marriott, La Quinta and Holiday Inn hotels who house our overflow guests. Our ongoing partnerships with the many VFW and American Legion Posts provide much needed funds and food for our guests.

In 1995, when the Foundation was first created, our goal was to support the Denver Fisher House with food, transportation as well as refurbishments to the home. In 2018, the Foundation raised over $500,000.00 to build a new Fisher House called the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Fisher House located on the VA campus in Aurora, Colorado. While our new home was being built, the Foundation continued to support the Denver Fisher House by providing food as well as transportation. In 2020, construction was completed and the Denver Fisher House was closed. The new Fisher House opened in April of 2020 during the pandemic and began as a home for our medical heroes. Doctors and nurses who worked with COVID patients at the VA Hospital stayed in the home for several months until late 2020 when it transitioned back into a home for military and veteran families. Throughout the pandemic the Foundation supported the home by providing food items and bottled water to guests staying at the house. We also created an outdoor living space for guests that promotes healing and comfort. When the house is full, the Foundation will provide hotel rooms to families, so they are never without a place to stay.